# Anyway to remove the "1880" from the node-red url?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/anyway-to-remove-the-1880-from-the-node-red-url/27741
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [4 June 2020 00:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/anyway-to-remove-the-1880-from-the-node-red-url/27741 "2020-06-04T00:37:42Z")
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [8 June 2020 16:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/anyway-to-remove-the-1880-from-the-node-red-url/27741/21 "2020-06-08T16:11:33Z")
Also most (probably all) routers will allow you redirect incoming port 80 to port 1880 on the server.
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### Author:  [@Deuang](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Deuang)
#### Post date: [10 June 2020 23:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/anyway-to-remove-the-1880-from-the-node-red-url/27741/22 "2020-06-10T23:55:53Z")
There are many possible ways to do this.
For internal access and running on a box that does not have a web server on it, then it should be as simple as changing the port from 1880 to 80.
This does leave you with a problem regardless of what port you use as the admin interface is on the same port and all the user needs to do is remove /dashboard and presto they are into the admin interface and if you have not setup a password then good luck stopping the users playing around.
For external and internal (my setup), you should use something like IIS for windows or nginx for linux and setup a reverse proxy to listen on port 80 and have node-red behind it. There are many benefits to doing this like offloading SSL, hiding the admin interface and restricting access.
CLIENT WEB BROWSER --\> nginx Port 80/443 (SSL) --\> NODE-RED Port 1880
CLIENT WEB BROWSER \<-- nginx Port 80/443 (SSL) \<-- NODE-RED Port 1880
There are many resources out there that will help you quickly setup a reverse proxy.
Hope this helps.
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### Author:  [@SteveMann](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/SteveMann)
#### Post date: [11 June 2020 03:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/anyway-to-remove-the-1880-from-the-node-red-url/27741/23 "2020-06-11T03:11:29Z")
A redirect works here:
Put this into a file named index.html and put it in the html folder. (I am using Ubuntu and the html folder is here):
> /var/www/html
Now, when I go to 192.168.1.124, I am redirected to 192.168.1.124:1880
```auto
Untitled Page
Redirecting to http://192.168.1.124:1880
```
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [11 June 2020 09:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/anyway-to-remove-the-1880-from-the-node-red-url/27741/24 "2020-06-11T09:12:51Z")
> [@Deuang](#):
>
> This does leave you with a problem regardless of what port you use as the admin interface is on the same port and all the user needs to do is remove /dashboard and presto they are into the admin interface and if you have not setup a password then good luck stopping the users playing around.
You can, of course, move the admin interface to a different path. And if you have users who you don't want to have access to the Editor then you must apply login security anyway.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [25 June 2020 09:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/anyway-to-remove-the-1880-from-the-node-red-url/27741/25 "2020-06-25T09:12:53Z")
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